Off Topic - Wrist Watches (pics)

[taroman]

Haven't found a Kahr watch yet!

[Bawanna]

Dang I love that watch. Got numbers a person can see and I love the military time inside there. Laid out really good.

I'm googling...................

[muggsy]

are u any relation to muggsy, he has been on here for a few years and is till looking for his first clue. Just sayin

I'll tell you one thing that I learned in the Navy. When in Naples, Italy wear your watch on your ankle. It makes it much more difficult for the pick pockets on fleet landing to steal it.

[muggsy]

Dang I love that watch. Got numbers a person can see and I love the military time inside there. Laid out really good.

I'm googling...................

The gun ain't bad neither.

[CJB]

That a really nice military dialed watch! I dunno if maybe I'd like white hands on it - looking somewhat more like something out of a B17, but... really no complaints as it. Nice pistol too!

[CJB]

Jocko, have confused Invicta witih Seiko .... about making their own movements?

Everything I can read says Seiko does make their own movements, in many Seiko owned and run factories in Maylasia, Thailand, Singopore, mainland China, Philipeans, and Japan. Published material by them is quite prodoudly saying they do it all, even their own sapphire crystals and that they hold various patents on design, and on the metalurgy of their proprietary spring materials.

Invicta.... puts Seiko movements in their watches. And ETA. And Miyoa too, depending on whats what. Very confusing now.

[jocko]

Jocko, have confused Invicta witih Seiko .... about making their own movements?

Everything I can read says Seiko does make their own movements, in many Seiko owned and run factories in Maylasia, Thailand, Singopore, mainland China, Philipeans, and Japan. Published material by them is quite prodoudly saying they do it all, even their own sapphire crystals and that they hold various patents on design, and on the metalurgy of their proprietary spring materials.

Invicta.... puts Seiko movements in their watches. And ETA. And Miyoa too, depending on whats what. Very confusing now.

u might indeed be right, that company I mentioned that makes what I thouhgt was most of seiko movemets SII Epson is a subsidiary of seiko, so I jguess one could call it within the family. I am not downgrading seiko , If u like um, wear um... Never heard of Invicta brand.. for u military buffs and especially pilots, go to the Bell and Ross.com site and look at their watchs. They are all stylized after the instruments in cockpits of our vintage war planes. Very cool watch, not cheap but very good quality.. I have a model BR01-93 GMT. nice conversation peace.

bellross.com

[taroman]

My S&W watch is the Mumbai Lamplighter. Has tritium dials on the hands and face for true in the dark function.

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[Bawanna]

My S&W watch is the Mumbai Lamplighter. Has tritium dials on the hands and face for true in the dark function.

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I wondered about that. I found a Mumbai, don't recall if it's a Lamplighter. It was very similar.

I'll be looking again tomorrow. I kind of like that one.

[CJB]

The new wrist candy finally arrived yesterday. For those so interested, some images.

Dagaz is pretty much a one man outfit, turning out nice watches one at a time. Some touches are applied not printed indices, SuperLuminova lume, choice of dial, crown and bezel insert, fully screw assembled bracelet (four screws per link, amazing), signed crown and bracelet clasp... everything laser engraved. For a one man outfit, he's doing amazing work. The innards are non-signed Seiko "mid grade" doing about +5 seconds per day, which is not bad for a "tick-tock" watch. This movement has hand winding and hacking as standard. And, its all helium rated for saturation diving.

Anyway.... enjoy 'em if you're into watches.

[muggsy]

Does anybody really know what time it is. Does anybody really care. (With apologies to Chicago.)

[CJB]

Some people do.

Mugs I knew a guy, who was too smart, too inquisitive, and too wealthy for his own good.

He was on the team at MIT that invented centimetric radar, and was in on smuggling the first magnetron into the USA. Too smart for his own good.

Before the internet, before cell phones and all the nice things we have today, we had good ol' shortwave and radio station WWV to tell us the exact time.

What my (nameless) buddy did, was tap out first half, then quarter seconds with his finger, much as a musician will divide the beat with some foot tapping. In that manner, he was able to tell, with some decent accuracy, the split second to say give or take a quarter second.

Every one of his clocks, every watch, everything he could adjust for time, he did. He even kept track of the drift on the 60cycles coming in from the power company (which drifts a LOT, fast and slow I've come to realize).

So... all his little hairspring adjusters set, all his quartz trimmers tweaked "just so", he had maybe....two clocks in every room, plus a few ticktock watches and a few quarts watches. You might say he had a predisposition to know the exact time. It was like a game to him, and his opponent was technology.

Fast forward. He calls me at work. Complains that all of his clocks are off by one second. Every one, one second exactly. And he wants to know WHY!!!! I mean he had a burning passionate desire to know what happened. Me.... I listen to shortwave and all.. but I have no clue as to why WWV is off kilter. We expected to see Rod Serling smoking in some dark corner nearby. Twilight Zone stuff.

Remember - no internet, no cell phones, no gps, we just barely had the first twin 5inch floppy IBM PC's on the market, and with that, you had to get in line for one, and another line to maybe get a "color graphics card".

Two or three months later.... we're eating dinner, he pulls out a scrap of newspaper. One of those little corner filler stories. "Earth Experiences Rare Leap Second", and a short story about how all atomic clocks had been reset by international agreement.

So you see, some folks do know, and care. Can't say they're reasonable in knowing or caring, but they do!

(same guy also bought three of everything, took them all apart, used the "best parts" to make a near perfect item, and returned the others "as used"..... what a character)

[yqtszhj]

Some people do.

Mugs I knew a guy, who was too smart, too inquisitive, and too wealthy for his own good.

He was on the team at MIT that invented centimetric radar, and was in on smuggling the first magnetron into the USA. Too smart for his own good.

Before the internet, before cell phones and all the nice things we have today, we had good ol' shortwave and radio station WWV to tell us the exact time.

What my (nameless) buddy did, was tap out first half, then quarter seconds with his finger, much as a musician will divide the beat with some foot tapping. In that manner, he was able to tell, with some decent accuracy, the split second to say give or take a quarter second.

Every one of his clocks, every watch, everything he could adjust for time, he did. He even kept track of the drift on the 60cycles coming in from the power company (which drifts a LOT, fast and slow I've come to realize).

So... all his little hairspring adjusters set, all his quartz trimmers tweaked "just so", he had maybe....two clocks in every room, plus a few ticktock watches and a few quarts watches. You might say he had a predisposition to know the exact time. It was like a game to him, and his opponent was technology.

Fast forward. He calls me at work. Complains that all of his clocks are off by one second. Every one, one second exactly. And he wants to know WHY!!!! I mean he had a burning passionate desire to know what happened. Me.... I listen to shortwave and all.. but I have no clue as to why WWV is off kilter. We expected to see Rod Serling smoking in some dark corner nearby. Twilight Zone stuff.

Remember - no internet, no cell phones, no gps, we just barely had the first twin 5inch floppy IBM PC's on the market, and with that, you had to get in line for one, and another line to maybe get a "color graphics card".

Two or three months later.... we're eating dinner, he pulls out a scrap of newspaper. One of those little corner filler stories. "Earth Experiences Rare Leap Second", and a short story about how all atomic clocks had been reset by international agreement.

So you see, some folks do know, and care. Can't say they're reasonable in knowing or caring, but they do!

(same guy also bought three of everything, took them all apart, used the "best parts" to make a near perfect item, and returned the others "as used"..... what a character)

And that there folks is a real life example of obsessive compulsive disorder.

And i have to admit with some things im the same way. I worked for a computer company 25 years ago that made high end unix workstations and servers for NASA and DOD back before MS Windows when unix was THE OPERATING SYSTEM. They made some of the Patriot Missle tracking hardware and software in the early days. They had those 3D TVs on workstations with the electronic gizmo glasses back in 1992. You could design stuff and take a walk through. Let me tell you there were a whole lot of those kind of people at that place. It was a really interesting place to work though.

You sure are right on the power company 60 cycle drift too. Their voltage drifts a lot too. I was having problems with an emergency generator at a location I was responsible for on the gulf coast one time and isolated the problem to the power companies incoming voltage on one feed of my 3 phase power . It was off by about 6%. Called the power company and told them they had a problem. They sent a guy out out and and i showed him the problem. He said "oh yeah I see." I told him that last time I had the problem they told me they were always within 4% so i set my threshold to 5%. He said I was right and went outside to make a call. He then came back in and told me it was plus or minus 8% and they were good and i needed to adjust my ATS some more but then gave me the sales pitch it was the Southern Company's goal to always provide reliable service to their valued customers. I then had a choice to either refuse and burn more fuel or adjust and then i could go home. They won. But i went back 2 weeks later and they had balanced the feeds and all were equal again. So who was really right?

Boy, i got off topic huh?

[muggsy]

Time is relative. It's based on the spinning earth revolving around the sun and the earth is slowing down. I tried that as an excuse for being late to work but the boss wasn't buying my BS either.

[CJB]

I know the NA grid is 117vAC plus or minus 10 percent as an absolute for customer voltage on biphased installs, but.... have no idea what the allowable bias is for 3phase. I imagine that for delta service, you've got to have the same plus or minus 10 percent on at least two of the legs, but no idea on the 208v side. For wye.... who knows.

We spec our eqipment to run from 105 to 128 vAC - the allowable maximum deviation. To tell the truth... some issues at the low end of things, sometimes our stuff just doesn't want to start, though once started it will keep running down into the 90vAC range. I think the boys who tested it just turned a variac down to see if it would run at 105v, and it did, so they called it good to go, never having to actually do a startup.